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captain_slinkyBehind the cut, a recent "Anonymous" e-mail that is circulating through the blogs and coming to me from my right-wing friends about Obama calling Veterans "Selfish":
Obama is Surprised Vets don’t want to pay their own Medical Expenses!
Here’s his response when he backed-off from his decision to let the military pay for their war injuries. What an empty headed person he is.
Bad press, including major mockery of the plan by comedian Jon Stewart, led to President Obama abandoning his proposal to require
veterans' private health insurance to cover the estimated $540 million annual cost to the federal government of treatment for injuries to
military personnel received during their tours on active duty.
The President admitted that he was puzzled by the magnitude of the opposition to his proposal. "Look, it's an all volunteer force,"
Obama complained. "Nobody made these guys go to war. They had to have known and accepted the risks. Now they whine about
bearing the costs of their choice? It doesn't compute."
"I thought these were people who were proud to sacrifice for their country," Obama continued. "I wasn't asking for blood - just
money. With the country facing the worst financial crisis in its history, I'd have thought that the patriotic thing to do would be to
try to help reduce the nation's deficit. I guess I underestimated the selfishness of some of my fellow Americans."
Long story short - Conservatives are still trying to spread lies in hopes that the less-than-smart people will just blindly accept it as truth. I'm not mad at the people who are regurgitating this information in to their own blogs and forwarding it to all their friends... I'm angry that they are okay with constantly being lied to like this AND not doing any research before just blindly being duped in to perpetuating this nonsense.
BTW, here's the debunking from that bastion of left-wing hippie socialism, FactCheck.org
Obama is Surprised Vets don’t want to pay their own Medical Expenses!
Here’s his response when he backed-off from his decision to let the military pay for their war injuries. What an empty headed person he is.
Bad press, including major mockery of the plan by comedian Jon Stewart, led to President Obama abandoning his proposal to require
veterans' private health insurance to cover the estimated $540 million annual cost to the federal government of treatment for injuries to
military personnel received during their tours on active duty.
The President admitted that he was puzzled by the magnitude of the opposition to his proposal. "Look, it's an all volunteer force,"
Obama complained. "Nobody made these guys go to war. They had to have known and accepted the risks. Now they whine about
bearing the costs of their choice? It doesn't compute."
"I thought these were people who were proud to sacrifice for their country," Obama continued. "I wasn't asking for blood - just
money. With the country facing the worst financial crisis in its history, I'd have thought that the patriotic thing to do would be to
try to help reduce the nation's deficit. I guess I underestimated the selfishness of some of my fellow Americans."
Long story short - Conservatives are still trying to spread lies in hopes that the less-than-smart people will just blindly accept it as truth. I'm not mad at the people who are regurgitating this information in to their own blogs and forwarding it to all their friends... I'm angry that they are okay with constantly being lied to like this AND not doing any research before just blindly being duped in to perpetuating this nonsense.
BTW, here's the debunking from that bastion of left-wing hippie socialism, FactCheck.org
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Date: 2009-05-29 04:51 am (UTC)But no one can call him an idiot (refreshing change, no?) The guy is pretty darn smart (even if I disagree with almost everything he does) and a good public speaker (he is enjoyable to listen to, also a refreshing change).
Just reading the supposed quote from him is enough to tell he didn't say it. The tone is all wrong and not the carefully scripted text that he prefers in his speeches. He also isn't stupid enough to insult American veterans in a country that has enough "Support the Troops" bumper stickers to literally block all oxygen from entering or leaving North Korea.
Unfortunately I have friends who will buy this hook, line and sinker. Of course they are still convinced he is a terrorist. No no! Not just a Muslim. A literal terrorist.
political orientation aside
Date: 2009-05-30 09:43 pm (UTC)Of course we already know i'm a bleeding-heart liberal anti-establishmentarian... (did I spell that right?)